Intoxicate

To become inebriated or drunk.s Intoxicated. Drunk, from use of spirituous liquor.* Whenever any other idea is intended other words are used; as, in saying that a person is intoxicated or drunk with opium, ether, or laughing gas.* Intoxicating liquor. "Intoxicating liquors or mixtures thereof" are liquors which will intoxicate and which are commonly used as beverages for such purpose; also, any mixture of such liquors as, retaining their intoxicating qualities, it may fairly be presumed may be used as a beverage and become a substitute for the ordinai-y intoxicating driiiks.5 In the absence of evidence to the contrary, beer will always be presumed to be an intoxicating liquor.* But "intoxicating" and "spirituous" not being ' See 2 Bl. Com. 204. = Adams v. Stone, 131 Mass. 433 (1881). ' Mullinix v. People, 76 111.

213 (1875). < State V. Kelley, 47 Vt. 296 (1876). ' Intoxicating-Liquor Cases, 25 Kan. 767 (1881), Brewer, J.; State «.

Mc Ginnis, -30 Minn. 52 (1882). •State V. Teissedre, 30 Kan. 484 (1883); Briffltt v. synonymous, an indictment for unlawful sales of *' spirituous and intoxicating " liquors is not supported 'by proof of sales of liquors which are intoxicating but aiot spirituous.

1 See further Condition; Drunkenness; Liqdob; Policy, Public.